Global Day of Rage in Solidarity with the Syrian People – Giornata Mondiale della collera per Siria

21 January 2012 Global Day of Rage in Solidarity with the Syrian People

Why?

Because the Syrian people have been undergoing the atrocities of the dictatorship of the Assad dynasty for more than 40 years. First, the father Hafez, then his son Bashar, with the complicity of the entire family and the mercenaries of the Ba’ath party.

Because the Syrian people, for 11 months, have taken to the streets to demand the end of this regime, to demand the respect of their human rights, invoking freedom and democracy and for this reason, and no other, are killed by an inhumane repression.

Because in Syria innocents are dying, children are killed in cold blood, as well as adolescents, women and men of every age, unarmed and defenceless civilians. The centres of their towns and villages are bombarded and shelled and their places of worship are broken into. Universities are raided in order to arrest and kill those who oppose the regime.

Because in Syria there is a strike to demand the protection and safeguarding of human dignity, paid for in blood.

Because in Syria thousands of people are imprisoned for thought crimes: even children!!

Because in Syria women are abducted and raped, including minors, in order to dissuade people from the desire to demand their freedom.

Because in Syria funeral processions are shot upon and the bodies of the martyrs are subject to every kind of vilification.

Because in Syria the regime controls information, instruction, economy and every aspect of the people’s lives.

Because there are entire cities in Syria that are subject to constant shelling by armoured tanks of the regime, with snipers positioned on the roofs and in the streets who are there to kill passers-by and protesters.

Because the world is standing by and only watching, from the UN to the Arab League, no one has moved a finger decisively and effectively to make this massacre cease!!

Because 6,700 martyrs, many of them children, thousands of wounded and mutilated people, prisoners and desaparicidos ask that this massacre ENDS and that justice be done!!

These are only some of the reasons for which, the 21st of January 2012, the World Day of Rage in Solidarity with the Syrian People has been declared. We can no longer stand by in silence! Silence and indifference are accomplices in this massacre! We make an appeal to the consciences of everyone, citizens, administrations, workers, political and religious leaders, academics and students, for mobilisation towards the respect of human rights in Syria.